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Hello, I go by Toffee! This is my blog where I post wips/doodles and reblog without shame! Ill post literally whatever is on my mind. I may also liveblog under #lb sometimes! For my finished more polished art follow my main account @toffeebrews!

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gr3y01

why do people want to cause harm to Killer so badly. like it needs to be fucking studied

tags are important, more below

gr3y01

just to clarify, he entire point and basis of Undertale and of the fandom surrounding it is "Hey, your choices matter here. Your actions have consequences."

i'm not the morality police, you just don't care about narratives. i don't care what you do or how you think. i asked "why" but i know why. like i get the thought process but it's so boring.

it's just common to see people interact with The Media About Morality, Consequence And Choice™️ and get upset when they are confronted with ethical dilemmas and make choices with consequences.

it's not about fic vs real or intrusive thoughts. i'm just sick of people who try to make a point only for half the audience to miss the mark to the point of having no aim whatsoever.

you're not a bad person if your routine choice is to pick the genocide route in every game you play either one time or every time, it's about how your choices effect a narrative and analyzing why it should go this way to the Player.

making a character suffer in excess when it serves no purpose to the story or even the mass audience is boring to me.

this isn't an argument, this is my observation.

also i can't read tone through text so this too is a general statement.

lifeafterpsychiatry

"What would asexual people even need community for lol" Okay let me get this straight, you as a queer person cannot conceptualize why someone who wants and needs to live their life in a way that significantly breaks with societal norms and expectations in ways that will result in various structural barriers, alienation, isolation, judgment, invalidation and outright hostility might have a need to connect with other people like them? This is crazy talk to you?

matchamilk030

breaking out of my hiatus just to redraw that fuckass expression they did in the new chapter

might redraw the other glorious expressions they did aswell

signanothername

Do you ever, or rather, have you ever felt like your art isn’t good enough? Like say you are drawing a character you really like, but you can’t seem to be able to draw them. And then that makes you feel like you’re not good at drawing at all, but it’s the only thing that gives you purpose or allows you to express yourself, so you feel stuck and hopeless.

Do you have any tips for how to improve on this? I feel like even though I’ve been drawing for a shy 19 years I’m still not at the level I should be at drawing, that my art isn’t good enough. I know I just need to keep drawing and improve over time, but right now it feels like I can’t draw the things I love. And I don’t know how to improve.

You’re an amazing artist, and ever since I came across your art last year I’ve been so impressed and excited to see your art, it seems like you can draw everything you want no matter what it is, I’m honestly jealous. So do you have any advice?

Sorry to dump this pitying ask on you, I just feel like I’m loosing the only thing I have and could use some advice maybe… artist to artist yk lol.

Thank you, I really admire your art! ( ⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝)

No need to be sorry, you’re ok dw <333

And to answer your question, I did (and still do) in fact, think my art isn’t good enough from time to time , especially as a young artist, I almost gave up on art entirely multiple times cause I was too hard on myself and wanted to be good asap

Feeling like your art isn’t good enough is a real and genuinely bad feeling that haunts every artist at some point unfortunately, you’re not alone in this

I actually have so many abandoned wips cause I felt like I couldn’t draw what I had in mind, that I couldn’t really translate things into paper in a good way

I absolutely can give tips on how to deal with that, I genuinely hope they help <333

-Honestly the biggest tip I’d give on how to deal with this is to try and change your mindset and how you think about things, this is obviously not easy, and it absolutely won’t just happen overnight, but try to change your thought process

For example, if you try drawing something, and you find difficulty in drawing it, and you start feeling like you aren’t good enough, try thinking about what makes you feel bad about your art, make a numbered list of one to three things, and then spend the day practicing these very specific things in particular, like, is it the lineart that bothers you? The coloring? The anatomy? Try practicing each thing you’re bothered with on its own without over complicating things by trying to study different art studies at the same time

So instead of thinking negatively and that’s it, try to tackle these negative feelings in a constructive way, that way, you acknowledge your feelings while still doing something that helps you feel better about it

-try to understand when these feelings manifest, and take action accordingly, for example, if these feelings manifest as you’re looking at the art of others, then you need to take a break from looking at their art, do something completely different, like watching your fave shows or playing your fave games, or reading your fave books to get your mind off of these feelings, you don’t need to suffer by feeling them too deeply, distract yourself from them

-plz use references I beg, a lot of artists tend to feel like they’re “cheating” when they draw from references, there’s no such thing as “cheating” in art, you’re not some all knowing creature with photographic memory, there are things that are going to be really difficult to draw, especially if you’re drawing them for the first time

The reason I seem to be able to draw everything I want is because I use references when I feel like I don’t know how to draw something specific, latest example is this comic, I don’t draw guns often, so I find a bit of difficulty drawing them, instead of torturing myself by trying to draw something I know I can’t draw well, I use references of guns to 1- get a good look at how guns actually look like (and stylize them if I wanted to) and 2-to actually make the guns look good instead of relying on my memory that could easily betray me

-I’m also begging you to step out of your comfort zone, and don’t be afraid of the results, comfort is the death of art, if you draw the same thing over and over, you’ll only get good at that one thing, getting out of your comfort zone will force you to learn new things and push your art progress forward

If you draw a character standing a lot for example, and this is what you’re comfortable with, try something different by drawing them with different poses from different perspectives

Now spoiler alert, the result will look really bad, especially when you go out your comfort zone for the first time, that’s completely natural, but don’t let that discourage you from going out of your comfort zone, the more you go out and try new things, the more your art will develop, the more progress you’ll see, the more you’ll feel like you’re good at art and the more you’ll feel better about yourself

-speaking of progress, if all else fails and the bad feelings are persistent, then go back to an artwork you made in the last two years, and redraw it again, actually seeing your progress in a tangible way will absolutely make you feel better, bonus points if you try something new by going out of your comfort zone in said redraw, like a new background or a new design for the character for example

-if you’re the kinda artist that compares your art with other artists, plz always keep in mind that your life, circumstances, personalities, and many other factors are detrimental to how art on both sides improves

What I’m saying is that you don’t know this other artist’s life, maybe they progress quicker because they draw everyday while you only draw once a week, maybe you both draw every day but they have a better life in general and that makes it easier for them to progress faster

Circumstances differ and so will your art from theirs, that’s why comparing your art with others isn’t really fair to you, try to only compare your own old artworks to your new ones

-while wanting to get good at art is really every artist’s dream (a very valid one) focusing too much on wanting to be good without giving yourself the leniency to make mistakes or draw things badly (whether intentionally or not) will only make you feel bad about yourself all the time

You don’t need to make a masterpiece each time you draw, let yourself have the room to draw badly, drawing something that’s bad is better than not drawing at all because you pushed yourself away from art by pressuring yourself with the idea that you have to be good

Art is your friend, not your enemy, the more you treat it like your best friend, the more it’ll treat you like its best friend too, loving your art and its flaws is part of loving yourself, so love your art like it’s your best friend, you wouldn’t be too harsh and judgmental towards your best friend even if they have flaws of their own no?

-I think a lot of artists are always advised to practice (which is a valid advice) but are not told HOW to practice, so they assume that only drawing everyday will help them improve

While to some extent, there’s truth that the more you draw the more you’ll improve, only drawing will not get you the tangible improvement you want to see

That’s why I say going out of your comfort zone is good for you, you have to practice new things that you’re not used to draw to get better at art in general

Bonus points if it’s something you already wanna improve on

And the thing about practice, is that it doesn’t need to be boring, take it from me, I’m someone who’s easily bored by traditional art practice methods, they bore me to death and I just can’t concentrate on actually practicing something if I don’t enjoy it

So what do I do? I practice by drawing things I love, the characters I’m already hyperfixated on? I draw them in different designs to practice character design for example, or I draw them in weird perspectives or wild poses to practice them

Doing that, you’re basically tricking your mind into doing something that’s boring by actually associating it with something you enjoy >;)

-don’t be afraid to redraw something if you don’t like it the first time, you might draw something badly the first time, but when you draw it again (now that you have a better idea about what you want) your art will look much better the second or third time, feel free to move things around or resize things or recolor things till you feel satisfied with them

-study artists you love! I think this is a really important thing that will help improve your art a lot, take an artwork you really adore from different artists you love and study them by observing them deeply, ask yourself, what is it exactly and that you love about these specific artworks? Is it the colors, the way they draw perspectives or backgrounds? And then actually attempt to incorporate these things that you love into your own art, it’ll help improve your art massively

Honestly that’s all I can think of rn shdhhzhzh

I really hope you feel better about yourself and your art soon, it’s honestly a bad feeling I wouldn’t wish on anybody, be gentle with yourself, you got this! I believe in you :D

If you need help with anything specific in art, lemme know, I’d be happy to help <3333

signanothername

Hello! Greetings, grand master of comics... I made a comic of my own, it's not. Very good, but I wanted to say your comics are a part of the reason why I even tried making one for real. They are so cool and they made me want to make something cool as well! So thank you.

And do you have any advice for comic pacing? or anything about your writing process?

Hiii Pigeon!

Omg the title shhdhdhdhhd thank you, genuinely appreciate your kind words, so glad you tried your hand at it! But don’t be too hard on yourself, cause while they’re fun, they’re also hard to make, and honestly knowing you? You probably killed it and did an absolutely phenomenal job <333

And sure always happy to help :D

1- Pacing:

This is a very tricky topic to explain ngl dhhdhdhd, but I’m gonna try my best to explain it in a clear and concise way

Think of pacing as the time it takes for actions or events to happen, this obviously is going to be different each time depending on the comic you’re making, and what you want readers to feel or think as they’re reading, more agressive actions are going to take way less time than more calm and quiet ones

If say, you wanted the reader to linger on a certain panel, you would either want to make that panel the center of the page, or even take one panel and make them into multiple panels, by dividing one action into smaller ones, and show its initial setup, then the steps leading to the main action, while still maintaining it slow, which overall means more panels to show one single big action in smaller parts

Dialogue also affects pacing, if you want a reader to linger on a page, then you need to have their eyes take a bit of a while to reach the dialogue

Here’s two examples on what I said so far:

Panel arrangement also impacts the pacing, and that in turn changes the overall emotional emphasis of the scene

See as follows:

Another thing that can have a big impact on pacing is how you show the flow from action A to action B, actions take time to happen, if a character is shown to immediately perform an action without set up prior to, it’ll feel faster and more aggressive than an action done with initial setup

That brings us back to what I said about whether your actions are aggressive or calm, the aggressive actions are going to take way less time to happen than more calm and collected and intentional actions

See here:

This however brings up a very important point that makes all our lives harder unfortunately, while zero set up for some scenarios can work perfectly, in others it’ll only make the action feel jumpy and weird, like the character went from point A to point B without a single thought to how the character even got there

That’s to say, there’s a need to set them up even if you’re going for an aggressive action, so how can you set up an aggressive action while still maintaining speed and aggression? Easy, the panel sizes! Panel sizes also matter, they can either indicate a slightly less important aspect of an action in calm ones, or in aggressive actions, show the speed of an action

Here’s an example:

But to try and simplify this complex topic, always keep in mind:

1- pacing is not a static thing, it changes depending on factors you’ll have in your comic, whether that be the characters, the environment, or the story itself

2-depending on said factors, decide whether you want people to linger on a page or panel, or have them quickly move on to the next panel/page

2-writing:

Writing to me is way harder than pacing, pacing at least can be played around with and it would still makes sense as long as it’s what you intended

Writing tho? Man

The thing about comics is that the writing is heavily reliant on the dialogue and the actions shown throughout the comic through art alone, unlike actual fic writing, you don’t get to use words to describe actions, you have to show these actions and have the dialogue pick up the rest

And if your dialogue isn’t good then it can easily show ugghvjvj

The best advice I can give about writing a comic, is to actually put everything you have in mind down on paper, then later refine them

Y’know the saying “make it exist first, make it good later” that’s honestly what I do with my own comics

I initially just put everything down, dialogue and art I imagined it with, then later rearrange and add or delete stuff, that’s when I actually start thinking about “pacing”

I personally try to treat the art and dialogue as completely separate things (even if in reality are very interconnected) I make the art look good and move it around based on the initial dialogue I have, then later go on and change the dialogue to make it sound more natural, in character, and make sure it makes sense

This comic? Yeah here are some of the original sketches and dialogue I made for it

See the absolute difference between the og sketch and the final version?

The writing process is messy, and nothing you do will be good the first time, that’s why you should aim to make it exist first, then actually work on making it look or sound better

That’s honestly all I can say about writing the comic out shdhhdh

Hope this helps, if you need any more help with anything comic related I’d love to help where I can, just lemme know <333

signanothername

“I didn’t always like Brown”

signanothername

You ever look at art on your dash from the multitude of amazing artists you follow and their art fills your heart with so much joy and whimsy?

skelesketch-mp4

them gay fuckers

color!sans by @/superyoumna

killer!sans by @/rahafwabas

manglestar

looks like mama

#deltarune spoilers #deltarune chapter 5

detectivehole

unless its egregious, i'm not embarrassed to be fooled by ai. "oh i got lied to via something made by the Lying Machine the machine we made to Lie really well" like it's gonna happen it's no egg on your face. just be chill about it

detectivehole

don't get me wrong. it's always devastating always humbling. no one wants to fall for the lying machine it just sounds bad. but you can't dwell

hardwarelecampane

5oularis

i can’t get them out of my head

5oularis

haven’t drawn him in forever oh killer how i love u

superyoumna

It's so funny how some people have started to hate Killer in the comic

The guy is as canon as you can get haha

redstonedust

i think people really under sell the physical side effects of mental health disorders sometimes. like sure the depression and anxiety may be 'just in your head' but when what's in your head happens to disrupts your sleep schedule and prevent you from going outside regularly and eating consistent meals and exercising and generally taking care of your body. well it sure takes its toll huh.